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Calling all Hawkeyes! It’s time to nominate your favorite family for the 2025 University of Iowa Family Spirit Award.

The award recognizes a family—spanning at least three generations of Iowa graduates—that has substantially benefited from and continues to advocate for the university, as well as contributes toward bettering the state of Iowa and its communities.

Nominate a family: https://www.foriowa.org/family-spirit/nomination.php

The recipients of this award will receive the ultimate Hawkeye experience during Family Weekend, Oct. 24-25, 2025, including 20 tickets to the Iowa football game against Minnesota.

To nominate a family, you will need to share:

• The nominee’s name, as well as yours

• Your relationship to the nominee

• Family’s patriarch and/or matriarch

• Names of at least three family members to represent three generations of Iowa graduates

• Why this family is deserving of the UI Family Spirit Award (500 words or less)

Nominations will be accepted until Wednesday, April 30. You can submit your nomination online, or mail your nomination materials to:

The University of Iowa Center for Advancement
c/o University of Iowa Family Spirit Award
One West Park Road
Iowa City, Iowa 52242